AI
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3 reasons kids hate AI—especially the ones who refuse to even try it
Picture a pretty typical 16-year-old today. Her teacher assigns an AI-assisted research project. She doesn’t open ChatGPT. She doesn’t even Google it. She already knows her answer: no. The vibe: I don’t want AI to do my thinking for me. That’s the whole point of being a person. There are millions and millions of teenagers…
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The sound of graduating from college in the AI summer of 2026: boo!
As artificial intelligence casts a shadow over career prospects, it is becoming an unwelcome subject at this season’s college commencements. At several campuses, graduates have interrupted speakers with stadium-wide boos when the topic turned to AI. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced repeated jeers over the weekend during his keynote address to about 10,000 University…
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America’s new AI map shows something surprising: ‘A lot of normal people are adopting AI’
When technologists and investors imagine where artificial intelligence is taking root in America, they picture the usual suspects: San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Boston. The places with the venture capital, the university research labs, the engineering talent pipelines. Microsoft’s U.S. AI Diffusion Report, released Tuesday, suggests that picture is badly incomplete. Juan Lavista Ferres, Microsoft’s…
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How Metropolis built a $5 billion AI infrastructure company out of America’s parking problem
Alex Israel knows where autonomous vehicles go to sleep at night. Israel is the CEO of Metropolis, an AI computer vision infrastructure company that processes $5 billion in annual payments volume, controls more than 4,200 locations across the country, and employs 23,000 people. The parking payment (now AI recognition services) company was born in 2018…
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Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI founding member and inventor of ‘vibe coding,’ defects to Anthropic
Anthropic can’t seem to stop winning. After a string of blockbuster model releases, a new funding round reportedly in talks at a valuation approaching $1 trillion, and an annual run rate that’s nearly parabolic; it’s now hired one of OpenAI’s—its bitter competitor—most famous alumni. “Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic,” Andrej Karpathy wrote onX on Tuesday,…
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Exclusive: AI startup Viktor raises $75 million to put a virtual ‘coworker’ in Slack and Teams
Fryderyk Wiatrowski, CEO and co-founder of Viktor, joined Meta with the aim of finding a co-founder. After landing in the social media giant’s ranks, he met Peter Albert, an engineer who had worked on Meta’s Llama 2 team, and the pair spent their evenings experimenting with AI, aiming to develop agents that could eventually take…
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Gen Z is over-relying on AI at work—and it could cost them their careers
AI was supposed to make workers more capable. For some, it’s doing the opposite. Half of workers today admit they’re over-reliant on AI, according to a new study from software company GoTo and Workplace Intelligence, a research agency focused on the nature of work. The 2026 Pulse of Work report—a survey of 2,500 respondents of…
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DeepSeek and China’s AI boom are increasingly powered by state money
One of the world’s most contentious AI companies just took its first outside investment. The check came from the Chinese government. DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng—a hedge fund billionaire who controls nearly the entire company—has spent years refusing outside money. Then, in mid-April, reports emerged that DeepSeek was raising at a $10 billion valuation. Within three…
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College students are booing commencement speakers celebrating AI, but the wave of hate hasn’t stopped them from using it to cheat on their exams
For today’s college students, attitudes toward AI can seem paradoxical. On one hand, they’ve made their ire toward the technology clear: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was met with hisses during his commencement remarks at the University of Arizona’s graduation ceremony on Sunday when he invoked the inevitability of a future with artificial intelligence. “The…
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Americans’ AI hate wave might just be gathering steam: Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030
For years, the American power grid was a bastion of predictable stability. Throughout the 2010s, U.S. electricity demand remained flat as efficiency gains and declines in energy-intensive sectors such as manufacturing helped obscure the dawning digital age. But the power grid as it once was might be no match for the technological demands of the…